children and parent

Should Students' Academic Performance Be Protected as Privacy Against Their Parents

　　Many parents feel that they have their right to gain access to the information on their children who are in college, especially to know what grades they are making. They pressure their sons and daughters and call university officials, trying to get access to their children's performance in college.

　　Most parents are paying for their children's education; so, it's certainly not unreasonable for them to want to know what's going on, but this is something that should be taken care of between the parents and their child, not between the parent and anyone else.

　　Also, parents should understand that bugging their kids to tell them this kind of stuff isn’t necessarily the best thing for them. College is a time when students are beginning their lives as adults. To continue to treat them like they are in high school can be detrimental to the learning they should be doing outside of the classroom.